In 1981, on an ABC sit-down framed around the Bella Donna project, Stevie Nicks talks like someone who has finally been given the keys to her own filing cabinet. Producer Jimmy Iovine gave her a hard three-month window before she had to rejoin Fleetwood Mac
On 1 July 2002, Oasis released Heathen Chemistry on Big Brother, their fifth studio album and the first fully shaped with Gem Archer and Andy Bell in the line-up.
Coldplay’s Fix You (X&Y, 2005): church organ lift, Martin consolation, Parlophone stadium hit.
On 28 February 2000, Oasis released Standing on the Shoulder of Giants on Big Brother, their first album without Bonehead and Guigsy and their first on the band's own label.
West End Girls began as a 1984 Bobby Orlando club cut, then became the Pet Shop Boys’ Parlophone breakthrough when Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe re-recorded it with Stephen Hague for Please; the October 1985 single hit UK No. 1 in January 1986.
In June 1972 Pink Floyd released Obscured by Clouds, a quick soundtrack for Barbet Schroeder's La Vallée cut in about a week at Strawberry Studios in France.
Chan Romero wrote Hippy Hippy Shake in 1959. The Beatles played it on the BBC. The Swinging Blue Jeans took their version to No. 2 on the UK singles chart in 1964. Big Soul's cut, track eight of.
On 3 December 1965 Parlophone released Rubber Soul, the Beatles album recorded at Abbey Road in a compressed autumn run with George Martin after Help! and another American tour.
On 5-6 October 2023, Polo & Pan released Charanga with Les Poppys and Isaac et Nora on the Carrossel Do Tempo EP via Hamburger Records / Ekler and Virgin Music France.
On 1 March 1973 Pink Floyd released The Dark Side of the Moon on Harvest, a continuous concept album engineered by Alan Parsons at Abbey Road and wrapped in Hipgnosis' prism sleeve.